Dean Max New “Concept Chef” at Renovated Cheeca Lodge

When Cheeca Lodge & Spa reopens in Islamorada this December 15th, its landmark Atlantic’s Edge restaurant will be under the creative direction of newly hired “Concept Chef” Dean James Max — who is known closer to home for his 3030 Ocean at the Marriott Harbor Beach in Ft. Lauderdale.The Edge…

Barton G’s Prelude Opening Puts a Giraffe on Biscayne Boulevard

Barton G, ringmaster, restaurateur, attention getter, giraffer? Yes. He said he would do it and he produced. What hundreds of pound of free food, hundreds of bottles of free drinks, a concert stage with a great opening band and the Pointer Sisters headlining cannot do, a giraffe on Biscayne Boulevard…

Jeff McInnis at Locust Projects, In Photos

What’s a Design District exhibition space got to do with liquid nitrogen aided cooking?Everybody has to eat; especially starving artists, moreso ones with money. Food is universal.Last night, Chef Jeff McInnis from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach held a cooking demo and Q&A at Locust Projects…

DRB Miami is the Democratic Republic of Beer, Now Open

Fourteenth Street is the Janis Joplin of Downtown. She came into some money, her legs are wide open, everybody’s welcome, and she’s down to party. Here’s a new notch in her belt. DRB Miami (255 NE 14th Street, between NE Second and Biscayne) is a bar and restaurant that just opened…

Closed: Badrutt’s Place, Wine 69

Ben Neji’s Wine 69 at Biscayne and 69th Street was a neat place to hang out over a glass of well-priced wine. Our loss.I ate at Badrutt’s Place, at 1250 S Miami Avenue about a year and a half ago, and haven’t had a worse meal since. Good riddance. It…

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Angus and Brangus

Like beef? We do. So stop by next week — we’re gonna try to buy us some. Here’s what you might have missed over the last week. From the people who made Jaguar a cash cow, Talavera, now open. Two Chefs, still impressing critics after all these years. $7 Dirty Martini at…

Sneak Review: Grateful Bread

First, the answer: The sancocho pictured above and in last weeks’ Where It At? is taken from the specials menu at Grateful Bread.And now, the abbreviated sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week:Our strongest recommendation from Grateful Bread’s regular menu is chicken Veracuzano, the tender breast…

Bollywood Nights at India Palate Last Thurs of The Month

Suck an egg daily metro!This week’s Miami Herald food & wine calendar presents factual errors regarding Bollywood Nights at Indian Palate.Bollywood Nights at Indian Palate goes down Thursday, October 29 at 2120 Salzedo Street in Coral Gables; not tonight, as the Herald reports.That’s according to Chef/Owner Jay Mariadoss who said,…

Miami Pumpkin Patches Celebrate Ice Age 3 DVD Release, Get Free Stuff

Will there be electric pumpkins, DVDs covered in seed slime, dinosaurs eating pie, or pre-historic creatures making you laugh like they do on celluloid?According to a 20th Century Fox representative, no.But that doesn’t mean it won’t be worth checking out the pumpkin patches at The Little Farm (13401 SW 224…

Fresh Diet Inc. Deliver Gourmet Meal Plans For Healthy Lifestyles

Web enabled eating is here and a Miami upstart is taking the industry by storm.Fresh Diet Inc. is a gourmet meal delivery company founded on the fair shores of the 305 by a dude named Zalmi Duchman. The company currently operates kitchens and deliveries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,…

Skinny Mini Coke Can is Such a Tease

Let’s do a little word association game, shall we? Chocolate candies are to cavities as a can of Coke is to ____. Did you say “a trim physique?” Perhaps “a lean, mean, fabulous-looking-while-sunbathing-nearly-naked on-South-Beach me?” Probably not. So please, someone tell me how the folks at the Coca-Cola Company have…

Interview With David Sax, Author of Save The Deli

David Sax has been called “The M.F.K. Fisher of pickled meats” (A.J. Jacobs), and his just-published book, Save The Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was referred to as “a voluptuous mitzvah for schmaltzophiles” (Jane and Michael Stern, authors…

Top 10 Funny Halloween Food and Candy Videos

Food, Halloween, funny, these are three things we here at Short Order live for. In honor of that we’ve rounded up our Top 10 funny Halloween food and candy videos. Enjoy.10. Space Ghost at the Waffle House – Hey, a superhero’s gotta eat…

Dole Won’t Pay Nicaraguan Banana Workers $97 Million

A federal judge in Miami ruled that $97 million ordered paid by Dole Food Inc. to 150 Nicaraguan workers who claim to have suffered sterility and other injuries due to pesticide cannot be upheld in the U.S.The injuries allegedly stem from use of dibromochloropropane (DBCP) pesticide on Dole banana farms…

Barton G Warehouse Fire Caught On Video

“It was just a massive combination of flame, smoke, and ashes, it was an extraordinary sight to see.” That’s what Donisha Prendergast told the Miami Herald when they interviewed her about the Barton G warehouse fire that she both witnessed and caught on video.The fire occurred at 400 NE 67…

Cooking Classes at MDC Wolfson Kitchen

College isn’t all about beer bongs, orgies and smoking like the Everglades. It’s also about learning stuff. Miami-Dade College’s School of Community Education is all about advancing your knowledge. Anybody can sign up, and you don’t need any stupid high school diploma either.Wolfson Campus (300 NE Second Avenue, Miami) has…

South Beach Wine & Food Fest Preview

Tickets for the 2010 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale this coming Monday, October 26. The festival is scheduled for February 25 to 28, and unlike past years there will not be a second block of tickets sold in early 2010. So Monday is, like,…